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How did Americans cope before Ritalin, anti-anxiety medicine, medication for depression, etc...

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Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
There is some truth in his crazed ranting 🙂

Remember when paxil came out? Until they had a drug to sell you, "Social Anxiety Disorder" did not exist.

They created the "illness" of feeling anxiety in social situations (which is perfectly healthy), funded studies to show how widespread of a problem it was, and wrote and planted articles on "SAD" in major newspapers. The Seattle Times ran a pre-written story on the epidemic on their front page.

It's exactly the same con job as when Hallmark invents new holidays to sell cards and gifts, except they're selling a legalized drug addiction.

Ooops, time for my lithium . . . .
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Social Anxiety Disorder may be perfectly healthy to a certain extent, but what they were talking about is taken to the extreme. People that can't even come out of the house. That is NOT healthy.

As far as creating a disease, I don't think so. Any anxiety taken to extreme is a mental illness, and unless you can speak with personal experience, it is very easy to dismiss it as 'normal' or something a person can 'get over' or 'suck it in'.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
How did Americans cope before there were medications available to take care of just about any kind of chemical imbalance???
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Same way they do now... lots and lots of booze.
 
Originally posted by: Ikonomi
We are an over-medicated society.
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Amen to that. I've been depressed before, but I've never been on any medication that I didn't absolutely need. Aside from my asthma inhaler I rarely even take an aspirin.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
How did Americans cope before there were medications available to take care of just about any kind of chemical imbalance???
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They didn't. There were much more school drop outs back then... and more alcoholics.

Of course, it's much easier to believe that this is all scam of the pharmaceutical industry to milk people.
 
Originally posted by: Choralone
Originally posted by: Ikonomi
We are an over-medicated society.
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Amen to that. I've been depressed before, but I've never been on any medication that I didn't absolutely need. Aside from my asthma inhaler I rarely even take an aspirin.
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Were you clinically diagnosed with a depression? Or were you just sad and self-diagnosed yourself as having a depressoin?
 
wow. the ignorance in this thread is so not surprising..but is.

You can tell the people who've never lived with or dealt with someone who has a serious mental illness.

I bet you also think Alzheimers isn't a real illness also? The first drug to treat Alzheimers approved by the FDA was in 1993! I guess that's all bs also.

Ignorance is bliss.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Remember when paxil came out? Until they had a drug to sell you, "Social Anxiety Disorder" did not exist.
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This has got to be one of the stupidest comments i've heard in awhile. Just because YOU never heard about it, doesn't mean it didn't exist. It's existed for decades, long before Paxil was around. Some famous people that were diagnosed with it long before Paxil was out: Oprah, Donny Osmond, and Barbara Streisand.
 
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: BigJ
Sucked it up and took it like a man.
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Originally posted by: cjgallen
Parents beat (literally) some sense into their kids.
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also people were a lot tougher back then...
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Grampa Simpson: "I fell 8,000 feet onto a pile of jagged rocks.... Of course, folks were tougher in those days. I was jitterbugging that very night."
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
wow. the ignorance in this thread is so not surprising..but is.

You can tell the people who've never lived with or dealt with someone who has a serious mental illness.

I bet you also think Alzheimers isn't a real illness also? The first drug to treat Alzheimers approved by the FDA was in 1993! I guess that's all bs also.

Ignorance is bliss.
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There's a difference between accepting the fact that a certain disease does exist, and accepting the fact that magically all these people now have it.

People do not deny that Alzheimers, depression, or bipolar disorder exist. What we do deny is every 15 year-old Emo kid with a live-journal or xanga needs to be on Prozac.

We're an over-medicated society that no longer wants to take any personal responsibility for any problems that may arise, nor do we want to try to solve the problem. What's the need when you can just take some pills and make everything go away?

And before you go on and say I have no idea what I'm talking about, I've been diagnosed and continue to deal with a mental health disorder. And I refuse to take any medication.

EDIT: Just read Dave's post, and while I disagree with the fact that it did not exist, I do think that it is over-diagnosed, as are a bunch of other disorders.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
wow. the ignorance in this thread is so not surprising..but is.

You can tell the people who've never lived with or dealt with someone who has a serious mental illness.

I bet you also think Alzheimers isn't a real illness also? The first drug to treat Alzheimers approved by the FDA was in 1993! I guess that's all bs also.

Ignorance is bliss.
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There's a difference between accepting the fact that a certain disease does exist, and accepting the fact that magically all these people now have it.

People do not deny that Alzheimers, depression, or bipolar disorder exist. What we do deny is every 15 year-old Emo kid with a live-journal or xanga needs to be on Prozac.

We're an over-medicated society that no longer wants to take any personal responsibility for any problems that may arise, nor do we want to try to solve the problem. What's the need when you can just take some pills and make everything go away?
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Actually people ARE denying that they existed. Are you reading the same thread as me?
 
There's a difference between accepting the fact that a certain disease does exist, and accepting the fact that magically all these people now have it.
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What's 'magic' about it? That there are more middle-class people, that the health industry is more accessible to people, so they're more likely to be diagnosed? Ah yes, 'magic'. I guess it's magic when you don't understand how things work.


People do not deny that Alzheimers, depression, or bipolar disorder exist. What we do deny is every 15 year-old Emo kid with a live-journal or xanga needs to be on Prozac.
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Hm sorry i don't know who you are, but who are you to make these qualifications for people? Ah yes, you're the internet genius that knows how the world should work. Gotcha.
 
We're an over-medicated society that no longer wants to take any personal responsibility for any problems that may arise, nor do we want to try to solve the problem. What's the need when you can just take some pills and make everything go away?
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Hm so instead of taking Ritalin and actually being able to cope with school, it'll be better if they just 'suck it up', drop out of school, self-medicate themselves through street drugs, end up doing crime to pay for those 'self-medication', and going to prison?

Instead of taking anti-depressants medications, they should just suck it up and do like they use to do 50 years ago? Just go to the bar, drown the problems away, come home and beat the wife and kids, then go to sleep?

You're right, people need to take more responsibilities for their problems... they shouldn't try to get professional help. If they're fvcked up, it's because God made them this way, and using medications is just not the answer. Ah yes, i see now. Thank you for enlightening me.
 
The world used to be a simpler place. You lived, worked and died. Easier? Certainly not, but less complicated. I suspect that people working in the fields a hundred years ago may have had less of a propensity to develop many of these illnesses we see today.
 
these drugs are destroying our society, there is no other way to put it. stop putting our kids on these drugs and let them grow up

mankind has survived for thousands of years without ritalin and all of a sudden these mean faced women with clipped hair have the right to force ritalin or any other drug on our kids. just insane

but again, western culture is dropping lower and lower each day
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
How did Americans cope before there were medications available to take care of just about any kind of chemical imbalance???
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They weren't all copped up and messed up by their exploitationist corporations, bullsh*t-filled government, and hysteria-propagating media.

True story. Those are the three biggest problems facing America today, in that order: Corporations, Government, Media. Terrorism has nothing to do with it.
 
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